Found-item information management server, found-item information management program, and found-item information management method

Abstract

A found-item information management server is able to hand a lost item over to the owner early with a high probability. When the finder of a found item sends found-item information to the found-item information management server using a first terminal, a found-item reporting unit registers the found-item information, partly as secret particular information, in a found-item information database. Thereafter, the owner of the found item sends a request to refer to the found-item information registered in the found-item information database using a second terminal. An information disclosing unit sends the found-item information registered in the found-item information database, except for the particular information, to the second terminal. When the owner sends lost-item information to the found-item information management server using the second terminal, a match determining unit determines a match between the lost-item information and the particular information stored in the found-item information database, and sends a determined result to the second terminal.

1. A found-item information management server for managing information about lost items, comprising:
 found-item reporting means for accepting found-item information about a found item which is entered from a first terminal via a network, and registering the found-item information, partly as secret particular information, in a found-item information database; 
 information disclosing means for sending the found-item information registered in said found-item information database, except for said particular information, to a second terminal in response to a request, which is entered from said second terminal via said network, to refer to said found-item information; 
 match determining means for accepting lost-item information about a lost item which is entered from said second terminal via said network, determining a match between said lost-item information and said particular information stored in said found-item information database, and sending a determined result to said second terminal; 
 lost-item reporting means for accepting lost-item information about a lost item which is entered from said second terminal via said network, and registering the lost-item information, partly as secret particular information, in a lost-item information database; 
 said match determining means comprising means for determining a match between said lost-item information registered in said lost-item information database and said found-item information registered in said found-item information database, 
 wherein said lost-item reporting means comprises means for accepting reporter information including contact information of an owner who has lost said lost item, as well as said lost-item information, from said second terminal, and registering said reporter information in a reporter information database, and said match determining means comprises means for determining a match with said found-item information registered in said found-item information database after said lost-item information is registered, and if said lost-item information and said found-item information match each other, indicating the match to said owner based on said reporter information.